TRENTON — Officials are investigating a possible connection between reports of gunshots and a car fire last night that left one person dead, authorities said.

The city’s Fire Department was dispatched at 7:07 p.m. yesterday to a car fire on Hart Avenue and discovered a dead body inside the car, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor’s office said today. There were also initial reports of gunshots fired, but they were unfounded, Battalion Chief Ron Kosztyu said last night.

The victim’s cause of death is still under investigation, spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio said today.

“The victim is believed to be a male, but the body was badly burned,” DeBlasio said. “We are still awaiting an autopsy this week to be able to see further.”

“It is suspicious at this time,” Lt. Mark Kieffer, a police spokesman, said today.

Earlier yesterday, city police were called to the 1100 block of Brunswick Avenue at 2:06 p.m. and found 41-year-old Bogdan Wilk sitting dead on the sidewalk, Kieffer said. Wilk died of natural causes, he said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the task force at (609) 989-6406 or the Trenton Police Confidential Tip Line at (609) 989-3663.
Contact Nicole Mulvaney at nmulvaney@njtimes.com.